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Guest Speaker: Chris Fraser (University of Toronto)

Title: The Xunzian Critique of Legalism and its Contemporary Significance

Guest Speaker: Paula Casal (UPF)

Guest Speaker: Zofia Stemplowska (Oxford)

Guest Speaker: Helen Frowe (Stockholm)

Guest Speaker: Jonathan Parry (LSE)

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Guest Speaker: Sarah Flavel (Bath Spa University)

Title: Daoism and Strategic Thinking

Guest Speaker: Anca Gheaus (LEU)

Guest Speaker: Andrea Sangiovanni (KCL)

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Guest Speaker: Jingjing Li (Leiden University)

Title: Husserlian Phenomenology, Chinese Buddhism, and The Problem of Essence

Guest Speaker: Charlie Richards (Oxford)

Guest Speaker: Luciano Venezia (UNQ)

Guest Speaker: Will Gildea (Warwick)

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Guest Speaker: Paul D’Ambrosio (East China Normal University)

Title: Confucian Contingency Model: Person, Agency, and Morality

Guest Speaker: Rowan Cruft (Stirling)

Guest Speaker: Ricky Li (Warwick)

Guest Speaker: Kieran Oberman (LSE)

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Guest Speaker: Ai Yuan (Tsinghua University)

Title: Silence in the Analects, Zhuangzi and Yanzi Chunqiu

Guest Speaker: Kate Vredenburgh (LSE)

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Guest Speaker: Yumi Suzuki (Bern University)

Title: Sino-Hellenic Environmental Philosophy: How Did Ancient Chinese and Greek Philosophers Think About the Environment Differently?

“In Ethics: Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality, David Wiggin surveys the answers most commonly proposed for such questions—gathering insights from Hume, Kant, the utilitarians, and the post-utilitarian thinkers of the twentieth century. The view of morality he then proposes draws on sources as diverse as Aristotle, Simone Weil and present-day thinkers such as Philippa Foot. As need arises, he pursues a variety of related issues and engages additional thinkers—Plato and Bernard Williams on egoism and altruism, Schopenhauer and Aurel Kolnai on evil, Leibniz and Rawls on impartiality, and Montaigne and J. L. Mackie on ‘moral relativism’, among others.” For the most part, the seminars are planned to takein person, in S2.77, but we move online forsomelater sessions. All colleagues, including undergraduate and postgraduatestudents, are very welcome.

Thursday April 27, 3–5pm: Chapter 1: Glaucon’s and Adeimantus’ interrogation on Socrates

“In Ethics: Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality, David Wiggin surveys the answers most commonly proposed for such questions—gathering insights from Hume, Kant, the utilitarians, and the post-utilitarian thinkers of the twentieth century. The view of morality he then proposes draws on sources as diverse as Aristotle, Simone Weil and present-day thinkers such as Philippa Foot. As need arises, he pursues a variety of related issues and engages additional thinkers—Plato and Bernard Williams on egoism and altruism, Schopenhauer and Aurel Kolnai on evil, Leibniz and Rawls on impartiality, and Montaigne and J. L. Mackie on ‘moral relativism’, among others.”

For the most part, the seminars are planned to take in person, in S2.77, but we move online for some later sessions. All colleagues, including undergraduate and postgraduate students, are very welcome.

Thursday May 4, 3–5pm: Chapter 2: Hume’s genealogy of morals

“In Ethics: Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality, David Wiggin surveys the answers most commonly proposed for such questions—gathering insights from Hume, Kant, the utilitarians, and the post-utilitarian thinkers of the twentieth century. The view of morality he then proposes draws on sources as diverse as Aristotle, Simone Weil and present-day thinkers such as Philippa Foot. As need arises, he pursues a variety of related issues and engages additional thinkers—Plato and Bernard Williams on egoism and altruism, Schopenhauer and Aurel Kolnai on evil, Leibniz and Rawls on impartiality, and Montaigne and J. L. Mackie on ‘moral relativism’, among others.” For the most part, the seminars are planned to take in person, in S2.77, but we move online for some later sessions.

Thursday May 11, 3–5pm: Chapter 3: Hume’s theory extended

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Guest Speaker: Jifen Li (Renmin University of China)

Title: A New Account of Human Nature in the Xunzi